Nigeria receive Egina FPSO

The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has officially received the Floating, Production, Storage and Off-loading (FPSO) EGINA at LADOL Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in the Lagos Harbours after a ninety-day voyage from the Samsung Shipyard Heavy Industry Goeje in the Republic of South Korea.

Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman assured Stakeholders and the general public that Government would continue to provide enabling enabling environment for the Oil and Gas activities to thrive through the Ports.

In her words “We promise to support the growth of trade relations by collaborative efforts with clients who aspire to land their cargoes directly at the Free Trade Zones. The realization of this project showcases the preparedness of the Authority at taking on greater challenges in the new vista going by the availability of top graded equipment in the areas of tug boats, safe navigable channels and the availability of highly skilled personnel amidst safe and secured environment for the ease of doing business in the nation’s territorial waters”.

She reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government in the area of promoting local content policy in the country in view of the numerous benefits accruable and most especially taking control of the Oil and Gas hub in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.

Hadiza disclosed that NPA management would in the coming months improve in the area of capacity building and infrastructural development with a view to providing an enabling environment for an improved customer’s efficiency in all the Ports across the nation.

Managing Director Total Upstream Nigeria Limited, Mr. Nicholas Teraz affirmed that the arrival of EGINA was an indication of human and capacity potentials in the country with the vessel weighing over 200,000 tonnes.
According to him, the arrival of EGINA would further represent a more “improved collaboration in the area of partnership commitment trust and faith” between the Management of NPA, Total and LADOL.
The Chief Operating Officer and the Base Manager of LADOL, Mr. Leyton Daniel said that the coming of FPSO EGINA has brought about limitless opportunities in a diverse range of economic activities.

He added that Egina which has the capacity to last 40 years under the water, had 200 crew members on board and spent exactly three months in its voyage to Lagos from Busan, South Korea only calling at Mauritius, and Cape Town in South Africa.

It is expected that the FPSO EGINA project would provide the enabling environment to reduce capital flight, encourage technological transfer, create employment opportunities and increase revenue generation.